Ransomware in Q2 2022: Back in Business

The report analyzes ransomware activity in Q2 2022, highlighting Conti's closure, LockBit's rise and release of LockBit 3.0 (including a bug-bounty and Zcash payments), the appearance of many new data-leak sites and groups, and statistics showing 705 organizations posted to ransomware data-leak sites with the industrial goods & services sector and the United States most targeted; it concludes that ransomware activity is rising and projects continued increases into Q3/Q4 2022.